Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Second Place

By: Rachel Cusk

Narrated by: Kate Fleetwood

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A haunting fable of art, family, and fate from the author of the Outline trilogy.

A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision might penetrate the mystery at the center of her life. But as a long, dry summer sets... Read more

Hot Stew

By: Fiona Mozley

Narrated by: Nneka Okoye

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST ELMET

“Stunningly clever . . . A deliciously spicy stew indeed.” —Entertainment Weekly

“A story about money and power, love and art, sex work and gentrification . . . Enjoyable and impressive on every page.” —USA Today

In the middle of the bustle of London’s Soho, among the theaters and sex shops and... Read more

Popisho

By: Leone Ross

Narrated by: Leone Ross

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

An uproarious, sensual novel, Leone Ross's Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere, food is fate, politics are broken, and love awaits.

Everyone in Popisho was born...with a little something...The local name for it was cors. Magic, but more than magic. A gift, nah? Yes. From the gods: a thing that felt so inexpressibly your... Read more

The Night Always Comes

By: Willy Vlautin

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“Willy Vlautin is not known for happy endings, but there’s something here that defies the downward pull. In the end, Lynette is pure life force: fierce and canny and blazing through a city that no longer has space for her, and it’s all Portland’s loss.”—Portland Monthly MagazineAward-winning author Willy Vlautin explores the impact of... Read more

Gold Diggers

By: Sanjena Sathian

Narrated by: Rama Vallury

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2021 * One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 * New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

“Dizzyingly original, fiercely funny, deeply wise.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere

“Sanjena Sathian’s Gold Diggers is a work of... Read more

Red Island House

By: Andrea Lee

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

From National Book Award–nominated writer Andrea Lee comes Red Island House, a travel epic that opens a window on the mysterious African island of Madagascar, and on the dangers of life and love in paradise, as seen through the eyes of a Black American heroine.

“People do mysterious things when they think they have found paradise,” reflects... Read more

The Bad Muslim Discount

By: Syed M. Masood

Narrated by: Pej Vahdat & Hend Ayoub

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Following two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 1990s to San Francisco in 2016, The Bad Muslim Discount is an inclusive, comic novel about Muslim immigrants finding their way in modern America.

“Masood’s novel presents a stereoscopic, three-dimensional view of contemporary Muslim America: the way historical conflict in the Middle East... Read more

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

By: Cherie Jones

Narrated by: Danielle Vitalis

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Zadie Smith and Marlon James, a brilliant Caribbean writer delivers a powerful story about four people each desperate to escape their legacy of violence in a so-called "paradise."

In Baxter’s Beach, Barbados, Lala’s grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister. It’s a cautionary tale, about what happens to girls... Read more

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

By: Mariana Enriquez

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“The beautiful, horrible world of Mariana Enriquez, as glimpsed in The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, with its disturbed adolescents, ghosts, decaying ghouls, the sad and angry homeless of modern Argentina, is the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.”—Kazuo Ishiguro, The Guardian

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE •... Read more

D (A Tale of Two Worlds)

By: Michel Faber

Narrated by: Isabel Adomakoh Young

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

“Glorious. A story that will be found and enjoyed and dreamed about for years to come.”—Neil Gaiman

A stunning modern-day Dickensian fable and a celebration of friendship and bravery for freethinkers everywhere.

It all starts on the morning the letter D disappears from language. First, it vanishes from Dhikilo’s parents’ conversation at breakfast,... Read more

A Lover's Discourse

By: Xiaolu Guo

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"I don't believe in love at first sight."



I was taken aback. I thought we were definitely in love at first sight.



"What do you mean? Wasn't it clear the moment you picked the elderflowers by the park and we looked at each other? Or was it in that book club?"



You gave me a damp smile, as if my confusion proved that you were right.



A Chinese woman... Read more

The Talented Miss Farwell

By: Emily Gray Tedrowe

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Catch Me If You Can meets Patricia Highsmith in this electrifying page-turner of greed and obsession, survival and self-invention that is a piercing character study of one unforgettable female con artist.""Becky Farwell is one of the most wickedly compelling characters I've read in ages -- a Machiavellian marvel, a modern Becky Sharp, a... Read more

Musical Chairs

By: Amy Poeppel

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin, Matthew Lloyd Davies, Gibson Fra...

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

“Poeppel has created a story that is well thought out, well plotted, well written, and fully developed. A delightful novel that celebrates the messiness and joy to be found in real life.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“100% page-turning delight…Pull out a lawn chair and prepare to read this gleefully entertaining novel.” —Stephen McCauley,... Read more

Death in Her Hands

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

"[An] intricate and unsettling new novel . . . Death in Her Hands is not a murder mystery, nor is it really a story about self-deception or the perils of escapism. Rather, it's a haunting meditation on the nature and meaning of art."
-Kevin Power, The New Yorker


From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting... Read more

Pizza Girl

By: Jean Kyoung Frazier

Narrated by: Jeena Yi

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST • An audacious and wryly funny coming-of-age story about a pregnant pizza delivery girl who becomes obsessed with one of her customers.

Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles, our charmingly dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in complete denial. She's... Read more

Red Dress in Black and White

By: Elliot Ackerman

Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From the widely acclaimed author of Waiting for Eden: a stirring, timely new novel that unfolds over the course of a single day in Istanbul: the story of an American woman attempting to leave behind her life in Turkey--to leave without her husband.

Catherine has been married for many years to Murat, an influential Turkish real estate developer,... Read more

The Paris Hours

By: Alex George

Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“Like All the Light We Cannot See, The Paris Hours explores the brutality of war and its lingering effects with cinematic intensity. The ending will leave you breathless.” —Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train and A Piece of the World

One day in the City of Light. One night in search of lost time.

Paris between the wars teems with... Read more

Simon the Fiddler

By: Paulette Jiles

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The critically acclaimed, bestselling author of News of the World and Enemy Women returns to Texas in this atmospheric story, set at the end of the Civil War, about an itinerant fiddle player, a ragtag band of musicians with whom he travels trying to make a living, and the charming young Irish lass who steals his heart.In March 1865, the long... Read more

Saint X

By: Alexis Schaitkin

Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White, Bailey Carr, Dana Dae, Dave Fe...

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Books of 2020

"Alexis Schaitkin’s splashy debut novel, Saint X, is an audiobook lover’s dream...Queue this one up for a murderous, dreamy delight." — Paste

Hailed as a “marvel of a book” and “brilliant and unflinching,” Alexis Schaitkin’s stunning debut, Saint X, is a haunting portrait of grief, obsession, and the... Read more

Grand Union

By: Zadie Smith

Narrated by: Zadie Smith & Doc Brown

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal! 

A dazzling collection of short fiction

Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation and her inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life... Read more

The Butterfly Girl

By: Rene Denfeld

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The Butterfly Girl is a riveting novel that ripples with truth, exploring the depths of love and sacrifice in the face of a past that cannot be left dead and buried. A year ago, Naomi, the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children, made a promise that she would not take another case until she finds the younger sister who... Read more

The World That We Knew

By: Alice Hoffman

Narrated by: Judith Light

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Audio bonus! The audio download edition includes an exclusive interview with Alice Hoffman and Judith Light!

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL

On the brink of World War II, with the Nazis tightening their grip on Berlin, a mother’s act of courage and love offers her daughter a chance of survival.

“[A] hymn to... Read more

Dominicana

By: Angie Cruz

Narrated by: Coral Peña

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA COVER TO COVER BOOK CLUB PICK

This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.

Named a Most Anticipated Book by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, O Magazine, Time, Real Simple, Chicago Review of Books, Kirkus Reviews, Nylon, BuzzFeed, Lit Hub, The Millions, Instyle, Bustle,... Read more

Chances Are . . .

By: Richard Russo

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls • Three men in their late sixties—old friends from college, each with a secret—come together on Martha’s Vineyard in this “gripping, wise, and wonderful summer treat.” (The Boston Globe).

“A cascade of charm…. Russo is an undeniably endearing writer, and chances are this... Read more